need help remington 22-250

[powerline]

trying to come up with a load for a remington 22-250 model 700 sps varmint , loading winchester fired nickel brass, neck sized, 55 grain v-max moly, cci bench rest large rifle primers, varget powder, seating 10 thousands off lands and tried 15 thousands to.
went threw hornady load book for varget tried imr 4064. tried remington magnum large rifle primers first but cci primers seemed to help. smallest group has been 1.407" with 36 grains varget 10 thousands off lands.
any help would be greatly appreciated thanks

[A_Gamehog]

Welcome to the forum,

Most 1-14 won't stabilize the Longer V-Max.

The length of the bullet is more imperative than the weight.

In my experience the 55 V-Max will not work in the 1-14 twist, I had a Weatherby .22-250 with a 1-14, there are exceptions, but most 75% will tell you the same. Try any 55 other than Hornady and you will be happy. It's not that you chose a bad bullet, it is just too long. My savage 1-12 does very nice with your recipe, I use rem. brass instead of win.

55 V-Max length .811

36 grains of Varget and anybody's 50 grain (not barnes) will work to start.

What did the primer tell you with the 36 grains and the 55 V-Max's? was it flattened?

My accuracy load is 32.8 varget gives me much tighter groups with less speed.

[wncchester]

Get further off the lands, 25 - 30 thou.

[powerline]

not much flattening on the primers, and will try seating a little deeper.
thanks

[Shoney]

How many bullet diameters is that 55 gr bullet seated into the case?

Did you check the run-out on the cartridges?

[dozernomore]

my rem sps varmint had a hard time stabilizing anything over 50gr , it absolutely loves hornady 50 gr v-max and varget

[Qtiphky]

I have narrowed my tuning down to the following five recipes for my go to load. I am shooting 55 grain spitzers and spire points (haven't noticed a difference between the two yet), on Federal brass with CCI LR primers seated to 2.35 overall length.

Powder charge velocity spread
Varget 32.1 2961 0.907
Varget 33.1 3086 1.345
Varget 33.6 3145 1.178
Benchmark 32.6 ~ 0.73
Benchmark 33.1 ~ 1.2

All velocities were chronographed, the two that weren't were because it started to rain and the chrono stopped reading accurately. I am shooting a Howa M1500 with Hogue rubber grips. Ran out of time before deer season so I can't finalize this until after the season and hopefully before coyotes start showing up.

[powerline]

Didn't get a measurement of how deep they were seated in the case just a seating measurement from the lands, haven't checked the case run out.
Thanks for the info on the 50 grain v-max was going to try them or some 50 grain blitzking sierra.
Anybody like v-max over the blitzking or vice versa?
Happy Thanksgiving to everybody and may the good lord bless you and your families and the soldiers here and abroad keeping our freedom !

[farmerboy]

Right there with you Qtihky, except have not ever tried benchmark. But for the 55 gr. V-max's Varget is where its at... (for my two 223's anyhow).

[A_Gamehog]

The Sierra BlitzKings are more accurate but more $money$ also.

For P-Dogs or Squeaks I like the Midway/Midsouth Varmit line of inexpensive bullets of 500 for 39.00$ They shoot great out to 200 yards.
34's to 55's I think they are made by Hornady looking at their packaging but I have no proof.

[billnourse]

My Remington VS likes 36 grains of H380 behind a 55 grn. Nosler Ballistic Tip. This results in about 3,500 FPS, and consistantly shoots 1/2" at 100. It also REALLY likes Hornady V-Max 40 grn. in front of 34 grn. Benckmark. This gets about 3,900 fps, and I have one 200 yard 4 shot group with it that is under 1/2". I would have gone for 5 shots, but was afraid I would blow it.

Neither of these loads is max and should be safe in about anything.

I tried Varget and 4064 and didn't get the results I got with the H380 and Benchmark.

Bill